Sep 12, 2008
Knowing when to restart IIS to pick up various types of changes to your application has traditionally been a challenge. IIS and ASP.NET are both stateful software systems, which heavily rely on cached state that is loaded once to provide high performance...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIStroubleshootingdevelopmentAppCmd
Aug 01, 2008
When dealing with hard to find IIS 7.0 errors, I break out the trusty Failed Request Tracing. My favorite way of doing this is through the command line...( read more ) Read More...
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Tags: IIS7IIStroubleshootingAppCmdTools
May 21, 2008
Due to the popularity of Windows 2008 Server Core I have seen frequently questions about how to configure SSL on IIS7 with only command-line. Since I wandered that path few months back I thought of putting this article/guide together. http://www.awesomeideas...
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Tags: IIS7CertificateappcmdServer CorecertutilSSL
May 06, 2008
Note: This blog entry used to be on my old blog. I'm about to shut it down so I thought I replicate some of the content here. Many IIS customers use IISRESET to get IIS back into a vanilla state. IISRESET is a pretty heavy hammer however and not needed...
Tags: IIS7appcmd
Mar 05, 2008
Let's suppose you are German, you developed an extremely cool web-site and now you want to make it available to your German Bier buddies. The only really fetzig site name you could come up with contains one of these nasty German umlauts: übersite.de ...
Tags: IIS7IIS NewsappcmdIDNpunycode
Jan 25, 2008
Today I got the following question: "I have two sites (siteV1.mysite.com and sitev2.mysite.com). They listen on the same IP address and port. We generated a certificate for siteV1.mysite.com and SSL is working properly. The problem is that some of our...
Tags: IIS7Host HeadersappcmdSSLbindings
Oct 31, 2007
The IIS 7 configuration system contains 50+ configuration sections (100+ if you count .NET Framework configuration), 477 attributes, and 57 collections. This can make it pretty challenging to figure out exactly what IIS 7 configuration section needs to...
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Tags: IIS7AppCmdConfiguration
Oct 05, 2007
IIS7 provides quite a few ways to create websites, applications, and application pools. You can use the GUI, but what if you need to create 10, 100, or even 10,000 websites? Read about the fastest way to create IIS7 websites in bulk at http://mvolo.com...
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